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The purpose of this study is to examine whether pre-editing can contribute to the improvement of machine translation quality. From the perspective of translation throughput and speed, post-editing on machine translation can be far more effective. However, the post-editing process is entirely dependent on the quality of the machine translation result. Naturally, editing the source text before machine translation process is expected to enhance the quality of final product. In this study, we used 16 pairs of Korean articles and their English translations, and four pairs of samples were taken from a literary text and its English translation. All 20 samples were machine translated and eight evaluators were asked to assess the quality of MT1(machine translation only) and MT2(pre-edited before translation) in terms of fluency, fidelity, and comprehensibility. According to the observations of this study, pre-editing contributes to the improvement of machine translation quality, particularly in terms of fidelity.